Nine members of Night raid gather around the stadium to watch the tournament slowly progress. "I guess it's all up to Bulat now," Leone said looking at the male in the stadium.

"Yeah guess it is seeing as how you and Tatsumi got eliminated in the first round." Sheele said looking at them.

"Alright well it's time to move on to the next round would Bulat and Shori please come to the arena." The announcer said looking at them.

Bulat was about to walk down until he felt someone place a hand on his shoulder he then turned around and saw Leone looking at him.

"Bulat be careful his imperial arm is weird and drains your stamina," Leone said looking at the male.

"Thanks Leone I'll keep that in mind," Bulat said as he progressed to the stadium. The blue haired male then looked at him and smiled.

"Guess its you and me sorry but I have a real problem with holding back," Shori said looking at Bulat.

"Guess that makes two of us," Bulat said looking at him.

"BEGIN!" The announcers voice rang throw the air and the two ran towards each other. Bulat went to punch the male and found that he easily stopped it and kicked him in the gut which sent him into a rock.

"Sorry but if you want to beat me you're going to have to do better than that." Shori said looking at him. Bulat got up of the ground and looked at the male.

"Looks I was right," Jason said looking at Zero.

"Yeah seems like it," The blonde male said looking at him.

"Right about what?" Silver asked looking at the two in front of him.

"Seems like Shori's imperial arm has the ability to take an opponents strength and make it his own. Which is why at the moment that Bulat fellow isn't doing that much against him." Jason said looking at them.

"Yeah Leone's imperial arm seemed to be like mine but a lion instead of a spider. If Shori stole that power then that means that he has a huge physical advantage over Bulat," Scerea said looking at the male in front of her.

However they were a little surprised to see Bulat suddenly become covered in armor and a mask form over his head. "Seems like things are about to get very interesting," Zero said as he continued to watch the fight progress.

Bulat lunged at Shori and went to kick him in the face. Shori stopped the attack with his hand however got pushed back a few feet. "I see that you're also strong. Guess a little more power couldn't hurt," Shori said as a large black circle appeared on both of his hands.

Shori ran towards him and tried to hit Bulat however the armored male jumped back and looked at him causing Shori to gain a rather unsatisfied look on his face. Zero noticed this and smiled.

Bulat then ran forward as did Shori out of the two Shori made the first move but Bulat once again avoid his attack by jumping to the side. Bulat then landed a powerful punch on the males side and sent him into a nearby rock.

Shori pulled himself out of the rock and looked at Bulat. Shori then looked around and saw several rocks then smiled. He ran over to one of them picked it up and threw it at Bulat.

Bulat smiled inside of his mask at this tatic of course he could easily catch or even shatter the rock but he still found it rather amusing. However his smile faded as he saw Shori dash towards it and shatter the rock with a powerful kick.

Bulat now had several rocks coming towards him and started to hit them all and break them to tiny pieces however if he had paid attention he would have noticed a rather large piece to his left hid something behind it.

As soon as it hit the ground Shori jumped towards Bulat and landed a hit on the male helmet which sent Bulat back just a bit. This however caused Shori to smile.

Bulat ran towards Shori and the two had seemed to have switched tatics with Bulat on the offensive and Shori on the defensive. As time went on Bulat began to see what Leone meant by Shori could drain someone of their stamina as he began to feel exhausted.

After a few minutes Shori smiled and looked at Bulat "I'll admit you were harder to catch than that Leone girl but I was finally able to get you." Shori said looking at Bulat as he fell down to his knee.

"You know if you hadn't gotten so confident you may have been able to see through my attack and you wouldn't be in this situation right now." Shori said looking at him.

Then like Leone, Bulat fell to the ground unconscious. Within seconds two peolpe with a stretcher placed Bulat onto the stretcher and began to walk away.

"Seems like Shori's imperial arm may have a weakness," Zero said looking at the male.

"Really? Well mind sharing this info seeing as how either me or Jason are going to be the one that fights him next?" Scerea asked looking at the blonde male.

"Seems like he needs to land a hit on his opponent before he can actually start draining your strength." Zero said looking at them.

"The next match is Jason and Scerea would the two if you please come down here." The announcer said looking at the crowd.

The two that were currently sitting beside each other then git up and the two began to walk towards the arena. The two then took opposite sides and the announcer looked at the two of them "BEGIN!" The male yelled looking at them.

The redheaded female then looked at the black haired male in front of her and smiled. "Look Jason do you really want this to go any further?" Scerea asked looking at him.

"I guess not," Jason said looking at Scerea.

"Good then I'm sure you know what I want you to do," Scerea said giving the male a wink. This caused Jason to blush slightly and looked at her.

"You're a damn succubus you know that," Jason said looking at the female in front of him. She just smiled when he said this and Jason sighed before raising his hand. "I forfeit," Jason said looking at the referee.

"Are you sure?" The male asked looking at Jason.

"Yeah there wouldn't be any point to fighting her. Plus I don't want to hurt one of my friends so I give up," Jason said as he walked out of the arena. Scerea smiled when Jason did this and she to walked off stage.

"Alright well final match for today is Zero and Havil." The announcer said looking at them.

The two males then walked down to the arena and looked at each other. "BEGIN!" The male said looking at Zero and his opponent. Like last time Zero dashed forward and punched the male in the stomach and sent him flying into the wall.

"Alright everyone that's all for today please come back tomorrow for the semi finals and the finals." The announcer said looking at the crowd. When he said this several people walked out of the stadium and out into the streets.

"Great well what do we do now?" Mine asked a little irritated.

"What do you mean?" Sheele asked looking at her.

"Well with Bulat out of the tournament we don't have anyone left to help us with our mission," Mine said looking at Sheele.

"That's a good question. What are we going to do boss?" Tataumi asked looking at the silver haired female.

"We wait for the winner then let him lead him to Mine. Then she'll take care of the target from a distance it's a simple solution to a simple problem." Najenda said looking at the brown haired male.

"Well that works. Unless of course Shori wins the tournament." Chelsea said looking at the Najenda.

"What makes you say that?" Susanoo asked looking at the female.

"Well according to Leone and the others Shori came here with Esdeath which means that he's working for the Prime Minister. Which means that if he wins he's still going to be slightly on guard." Chelsea said looking at Najenda.

"Well then we might as well give up on assassinating him at the moment. With Shori's imperial arm and the combined power of both me and Leone then he's pretty much unstoppable." Bulat said looking at them.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Chelsea said looking at Bulat.

"You got a plan Chelsea?" Mine asked looking at her.

"Not a plan more or less a theory. There's still Zero. We've caught glimpses of his imperial arm and his seems to be used for power only. At the moment we know that he's able to easily take out a normal opponent. So at the moment it's fair to say that he's on par with Shori . . . Even if it is very unlikely." Chelsea said looking at them.

"So you think he can beat Shori then?" Tatsumi asked looking at her.

"Do I personally believe he's capable of beating Shori? No of course not with the information we have is it fair to say it's possible yes." Chelsea said looking at them.

"So you don't think Zero can beat him?" Sheele asked looking at her.

"No," Chelsea stated flatly.

"Well at the moment if we want to kill the Prime Minister while he's venerable then let's just hope that Zero can beat Shori," Najenda said looking at them.

"If he looses then what are we going to do?" Sheele asked looking at Najenda.

"Then we'll just have to find a way to get around the defenses that the Prime Minister has surely placed around himself." Najenda said looking at the purple haired female.

"Well guess we'll just have to wait and see. Hopefully luck favors us and we'll be able to get out of this without losing anyone and take out our target." Najenda said looking at them.